noun
cream sauce
A sauce made with cream, used in Western-style cooking. Common in dishes like pasta, gratin, and stews.
今夜はクリームソースのパスタを作ろう。
Let's make pasta with cream sauce tonight.
このグラタンにはたっぷりのクリームソースがかかっている。
This gratin is covered with plenty of cream sauce.
Variant with interpunct; less common in everyday writing.
ホワイトソース is a béchamel-based white sauce, while クリームソース is a broader term for any cream-based sauce, often richer and made with fresh cream.
Loanword from English 'cream sauce'.